Cargo-cult design, doomed to failure just like the Zune.
Makes sense. Apple is the standard by which the industry is judged.
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you know...
The faster we go, the rounder we get - sounds like Windows 1.0 taking GUI from the Micintosh.
Meh, I wouldn’t read too much into it. Computer companies, and especially software companies, “steal” ideas from each other all of the time.
Microsoft would be negligent if they didn’t consider what Apple is doing well that Microsoft isn’t, and frankly, the opposite is true as well.
” Microsoft immitating Apple)”
So what’s new? They always have.
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I use both Windows and Macs. But I use Macs 90 percent of the time, because they always work, and work well. And I was a Senior Windows Systems Administrator over hundreds of servers and PCs for many years.
Of course, now I am sick and tired of the Apple fanboys, but I am glad Apple has made it.
I hear they eventually want to do away with mice/keyboards and go with touch LCD screens and voice. And rumor has it they want to have a webcam ID login upon windows boot.
Bad. Idea.
But they include a spell checker...
OTOH, this slide itself shows something that's wrong with Microsoft. Four bullets, averaging two lines each. Graphic with a bunch of little text that few are likely to read. Meanwhile, this is about the most complicated slide you'll get from Apple:
Microsoft themselves did a great little video on what would happen if Microsoft designed the iPod packaging. They're learning from that, at least a bit, but they still have a long way to go.
Furthermore, Apple doesn’t rely on PowerPoint to manage the entire business. ;’)
I think this is a VERY good idea. I mean, it’s not a NEW idea. Microsoft has been TRYING to get this right for 20 years or more since before Macintosh 84. But, I support them getting better and better each attempt. I use windows and have had to suffer through it for years, while my Macs have been virus free, hassle free and totally don’t just die.
So, go for it. Windows 8! Yes. Good luck. May the force be with you.
But, even so... even if they DO “win”.... the still lose... there is one tiny winy little problem everyone forgets in this classic debate.
Microsoft doesn’t make their own hardware and doesn’t even try to set a minimalist standard.
Anyone can make any kind of $99 parts and junk and claim windows will run on it.
Anyone can write any program and put it out on any website and it can totally screw with any number of your settings and preferences and often be loaded with bloatware, spyware, bundled utter junk that will ruin any half baked attempt at emulating an “APPLE” feel to things.
Apple... Mac... is more than a feeling.. more than an OS... more than the hardware... it is truly the very embodiment of the saying “Greater than the sum of its parts”.
And since Microsoft controls only the OS shell for the other than Mac experience, they cannot possibly succeed at an impossible task over which they exert a minimum influence at best.
No.
Microsoft needs to do a lot of work still, and button down their OS and make it more intuitive and secure, all true... but it should DO those things and not get caught up in trying to out Apple Apple for appearances sake.
Microsoft has copied the stores and geniuses from Apple. But they will always make hideous looking computers.
This is news? They have been doing this since the very first issues of Windows. Apple usually does it and then a year later so does windows.
Isn’t that why Microsoft has a “Recycle Bin”?
I remember seeing a Lisa back about 1982, and it had an icon driven system, and sure enough, there was a Garbage Can.
I think MS thought about making it a garbage can but decided they didn’t want to face the lawsuits.
Microsoft has always mimicked Apple. They start off with a great product when it reaches Beta, but then they start adding Microsoft-isms to it until it turns into a boondongle you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.